Lush Life

Lush Life - Lisa Ekdahl

I used to visit all the very gay places

Those come what may places

Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life

To get the feel of life from jazz and cocktails

The men I knew had sad and sullen gray faces

With distingue traces that used to be there

You could see where they'd been washed away

By too many through the day twelve o'clock tales

Then you came along with your siren song

To tempt me to madness

I thought for a while that your poignant smile

Was tinged with the sadness of a great love for me

Oh yes I was wrong again I was wrong

Life is lonely again and only last year

Everything seems so sure

Now life is awful again

A trough full of hearts could only be a bore

A week in Paris will ease the bite of it

I just care is to smile inspite of it

I'll forget you I will

But yet you are still

Burnin' inside my brain

Romance is mush

Striving those who strive

I'll live a lush life in some small dive

And there I'll be while I rot with the rest

Of those whose lives are lonely too